get away with it. >> reporter: marvin brown is a professor of business ethics and author of the book "corporate ethics." most people do what they think is right, considering the world that they think they live in. so what these events tell us is that the kind of world that has been created by the people managing the port of oakland. >> reporter: as for lawrence dunnigan, mr. dunnigan, this is eric rasmussen, we tried to reach him repeatedly and we're still waiting for a response. >>> we're outraged! the media has exposed what we have known all along. >> what we uncovered set off a series of protests by oakland port workers. as you can see workers were furious after our first story and disrupted the very next board meeting. our report put the port's top officials and board on the defensive and launched a series of investigations. within a week of our first story the port commission placed executive director benjamin and maritime director jamkwon james kwon on administrative leave. we discovered it was more than port officials visiting that coorook bar. some members of oakland police